Project Mercury is now history. In its short span of four years, eight months, and one week as the Nation's first manned space flight program, Mercury earned a unique place in the annals of science and technology. The culmination of decades of investigation and application of aerodynamics, rocket propulsion, celestial mechanics, aerospace medicine, and electronics, Project Mercury took man beyond the atmosphere into space orbit. It confirmed the potential for man's mobility in his universe. It remains for Projects Gemini and Apollo to demonstrate that potential. This chronology of Project Mercury represents only a beginning on the full history, just as Mercury was only a first step in the development of American space transportation. No chronology is a history. This volume is but a preface to what is yet to come. Yet it offers us a catalog of processes by which man progresses from ideas originating in the human mind to the physical devices for man's travel to the moon and beyond.
Project Mercury: A Chronology
1963
258 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Engineering Index Backfile | 1963
|PROJECT MERCURY - A CHRONOLOGY
NTRS | 1963
|NTIS | 1971
|TIBKAT | 1971
|Time-Stratigraphy and Impact Cratering Chronology of Mercury
British Library Conference Proceedings | 2002
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